Saturday, April 28, 2007

Rink Road Trip

A bit impulsively, Ken and I have decided to head up I-95 and take in tonight's Sens/Devils game (Jersey's inability to sell out is our gain). If you're going to be at the game, drop us an email (Japers dot Rink at gmail dot com) with a cell number and we'll buy you a beer.

"Ottawa coach Bryan Murray, who argued with on-ice officials after the goal, said it was verified on video that the timekeeper started the clock about 0.7 of a second late, so the period should have ended before the puck went in.

"'We knew the clock didn't start - that's why I called the ref,' said Murray. 'We shouldn't be worrying about times and people of that nature any more with the technology we have.'"

It's funny how people react to time questions at the end of a game or period. Everyone makes a big deal about getting the time exact, and the losers always complain if the time keeping is not exact,but no one cares if three extra seconds ticked off the clock 1/2 way through the period because the time keeper stopped paying attention. It seems to me that for every delay in starting the clock, there's probably roughly the same length delay in stopping it after a whistle, making the whole thing even out. The only way to make it completely fair is to have someone checking the clock after every stop/start.

But then again, the Devils won, so I'm not bitter about the subject right now.